Improvement in ironing-machines



A. G. GARDNER.

Improvement in Ironing Machines.

No. 123,819. Patented Fb. 20 1872.

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

'IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-MACHINES.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 123,819, dated February 20, 1872.

Specification describing a certain Improved Ironing-Machine, inventedby ANsoN G. GARD- NER, of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York.

My invention consists in a heated smoothing-wheel, swinging over the ironing-table in a plane parallel with it, and rolling on the -goods tobe ironed when moving forward, but sliding on them when moving back to do the smoothing, the rotary motion being arrested when the backward-swinging motion begins; but I may have the wheel revolve continuously as well.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved machine; and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

, A is the ironing-table, with a bed or board,

B, of any kind, which is to be covered or dressed with flannel or other cloth, as ironingboards are, to make a soft bed for the iron, and to hold the goods against being moved about by the iron. 0 is the castiron ironingwheel, such as used in other machines of this character. It is heated by a gas-jet, D, admitted through the tube E and hollow axle F.

tion to the wheel, and is adjusted, as to its.

curvature, for that purpose. It may be confined in its position under the plate K by any preferred means, say apair of straps, L. Mis a ratchet-wheel or rim on the wheel 0, and N,

a pawl for engaging it at the, moment the wheel begins to swing back to hold the wheel from rolling, and to cause it to slide on the goods and smooth them. At the forward movement, the wheel rolls along upon the goods, which are adjusted on the table A at the time the wheel is in the-rearmost position. The table may be mounted on adjusting-screws or springs, to have, in the latter case, a slight risin g-and-falling motion to compensate for vaside, each applying and removing the goods as the wheel recedes from him. In this respect the machine is better than those in which the table or bed oscillates or reciprocates, and is not always in the right position for the attendant.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination of ironing-table A, covered board B, hollow ironing-wheel O, gas-jet D, tube E, hollow axle F, frame G, and rocker H, as and for the purpose described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 28th day of September, 1871.

AN SON G. GARDNER.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, T. B. MOSHER. 

